The Gov­ern­ment has met with the Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go in a high-lev­el en­gage­ment aimed at strength­en­ing di­a­logue on eco­nom­ic con­di­tions, fi­nan­cial sec­tor sta­bil­i­ty and pol­i­cy co­or­di­na­tion with the bank­ing in­dus­try.

The meet­ing, con­vened by Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo, brought to­geth­er se­nior gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go, and lead­ers of the bank­ing sec­tor to dis­cuss cur­rent mar­ket con­di­tions and the broad­er eco­nom­ic out­look.

Al­so in at­ten­dance were Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance and Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment Sen­a­tor Dr Kennedy Swarats­ingh, Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Lar­ry Howai, and Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Suzette Tay­lor-Lee Chee, along­side tech­ni­cal of­fi­cers and se­nior bank­ing ex­ec­u­tives.